The 2023 Florida Statutes (including Special Session C)

Title XLIII
DOMESTIC RELATIONS

Chapter 741
MARRIAGE; DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

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F.S. 741.07

741.07 Persons authorized to solemnize matrimony.—

(1) All regularly ordained ministers of the gospel or elders in communion with some church, or other ordained clergy, and all judicial officers, including retired judicial officers, clerks of the circuit courts, and notaries public of this state may solemnize the rights of matrimonial contract, under the regulations prescribed by law. Nothing in this section shall make invalid a marriage which was solemnized by any member of the clergy, or as otherwise provided by law prior to July 1, 1978.

(2) Any marriage which may be had and solemnized among the people called “Quakers,” or “Friends,” in the manner and form used or practiced in their societies, according to their rites and ceremonies, shall be good and valid in law; and wherever the words “minister” and “elder” are used in this chapter, they shall be held to include all of the persons connected with the Society of Friends, or Quakers, who perform or have charge of the marriage ceremony according to their rites and ceremonies.

History.—s. 1, Nov. 2, 1829; s. 2, ch. 1127, 1861; RS 2056; GS 2575; RGS 3934; CGL 5853; s. 1, ch. 28104, 1953; s. 1, ch. 74-372; s. 1, ch. 78-15; s. 34, ch. 95-401.

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Amendments to 741.07

Arrestable Offenses / Crimes under Fla. Stat. 741.07

Level: Degree
Misdemeanor/Felony: First/Second/Third

Current data shows no reason an arrest or criminal charge should have occurred directly under Florida Statute 741.07.

Annotations, Discussions, Cases:

Cases from cite.case.law:

CRESCENT RESOURCES LITIGATION TRUST BENSIMON, v. DUKE ENERGY CORPORATION LLC LLC f k a LLC LLC B. W. W. R., 500 B.R. 464 (W.D. Tex. 2013)

. . . See Collier on Bankruptcy P 741.07 ("Although there is evidence that Congress intended to limit the types . . .

M. HALL, v. R. MAAL,, 32 So. 3d 682 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 2010)

. . . Nevertheless, the text of that statute applies solely to a person authorized by section 741.07, Florida . . . See § 741.07, Fla. Stat. (2002). . . . provides: Marriage not to be solemnized without a license. — Before any of the persons named in s. 741.07 . . .

In A. R. BARON CO. INC., 226 B.R. 790 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 1998)

. . . . ¶ 741.07 (15th ed.1995). . . .

METROPOLITAN DADE COUNTY, v. SHELTON,, 375 So. 2d 32 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1979)

. . . Before any of the persons named in § 741.07 shall solemnize any marriage, he shall require of the parties . . .